Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Oaks, have been completed, and the farm is now one of the finest 40 acre x tracts in that section. Mr. Eggleston had a new house, well house and bam .erected and. the total cost of the improvements must have been about 83,000. It was while working on the barn at tha,t place that John Andrus had the misfortune to fall and break his hip. His brother, Jerome Andrus, took the job off John’s hands and finished it up last week. After it was all finished mad Settlement had been made, Mr. Eggleston banded Jerome an envelope and told him not to open it until he got heme. Jerome was greatly pleased as well as' surprised when he found that the envelope contained a ten dollar bill, which Mr. Eggleston had given him because of the thorough satisfactory work he had done.

MONDAY If you want to laugh see Sis Perkins, Miss Hazel Lamson went to Crown Point today for a short visit. Mrs. Joseph Adams returned this morning from a short visit at Lafiyette. Edward G. Herman returned to Chicago today, after a, few days’ visit in and nqar Rensselaer. 1 The merry-go-round will start up with a free ride at7:oo o’clock tills evening. j J Miss Ollie Tanner went to Chicago this morning to enter the Moody Bibl 1 Institute, as a student. I —: R. M. Moore returned to Trafal- ■ gar today, after an extended visit I here with Jos. Yeoman and family. | Remember the grand fall opening ' sale, Home Coding week. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Miss Maurine Tuteur has a home coming visitor, in the person of Miss Nina Spitler, of Kentland.

I M. L. Spitler, Jr., and wife, of Okla- . homa City, Okla., arrived this as- : ternoon to visit relatives and atitend the home coming. Mrs. Edward Ames went to Madison this morning, having been called there by the serious sickness of her sister, Mrs. Jas. Davidson. Miss Manda Miller left this mornI ing for her home at Washington Court I House, Ohio, after a visitXlth the family of Henry Gross, near Gifford. Mr. and Mrs. Will Mackey returned I tnls morning from a two weeks visit j with relatives at Tipton, Logansport and other places. A big fun show, S’s Perkins, opera house, Tuesday, Sept. Ist. Get your reserved seats now, as they are selling fast. Misses Ellen and Mary Childers returned Saturday evening from a three weeks' visit In Rushville, Greenburg, Westport and Rossville. Misses Maud Daugherty and Esther Padgitt returned Saturday from a visit of three weeks at Lafayette and Crawfordsville, having attended the fair at the latter place. , —' ■ .. - ~ r,iA, gr A. L. Padgitt went to Lafayette yesterday evening, taking his two sons, Thomas and George, along with him to spend the week at the fair. H i Emery Comdr returned to his home in Owen county today, after having visited his son, Greeley Comer, north of town, for the past ten days. Mrs. John Coey, of Francesville, returned home today, after spending several days with her daughter, Mrs. C. B. Reprogle. Mrs. Reprogle is now rabidly improving after several weeks sickness. • W. A. Huff and wife, former residents for many years of Rensselaer, are here, having driven across from Fowler, where they now reside. I Banty” is still in the jewelry busi-nt-ss. Mrs. C. A. Gustafson and two children returned to Chicago Saturday, after a visit of’two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. G. Utterburg, just northwest of town. Rev. A. L. Wooton, who has just been assigned as pastor of the Rensselaer M. P. church, will preach here the second and fourth Sundays of each month. He will also preach at Monticello and Monon Lowell got It partly back on the Valparaiso Standards Sunday by defeating them by the Score of 1 to 0. Irwin, the crack Lowell pitcher, held the Standards down, and the Lowell !>oys put up a fine game. l' - r } _■■ ■.; —— The Monticello old settlers annual meeting was held last Saturday and ♦here was a large crowd present The early morning rain threatened to spoil things, but served to bring lots more pec pie to town. The crowd was esti-' mated to be about 6,000. I